Juxtaposing George’s writings reminded me of Henry VIII releasing a work under his name defending the Seven Sacraments against Martin Luther. That contrasts with his later actions a wee bit.
American slavery was not exclusively from Africa; the very concept of “black” and “white” was invented by slaveholders to divide slaves by an artificial interest, to keep them down. This complicates our evaluation of the moral superiority slaves of African origin, irrelevant to the actual conditions of the time. And after the colonial/revolutionary period, when William Wilberforce took what seems to us to be the moral high road, there was a hidden, perhaps less than moralistic factor, that the economic principal had been discovered by American slaveholders that there was a substantial profit drain in having to provide for the care of slaves too old to work. Whereas in the British occupation of Ireland, in same period leading up to the Civil War in America, the 1840s and 1850s, the history of the potato famine is complicated by the fact that there were bumper harvests exported to England and protected by British soldiers so the starving Irish couldn’t get the food. In the international labor market including American slaves and Irish peasants, this put them at odds. Wilberforce isn’t on record as opposing systematic British government policies permitting the ethnic cleansing of the Irish. There’s sufficient hypocrisy to go around, in the time of King George, of William Wilberforce, and now.